Do Casinos Help Native Americans?

by Ralph Stone via Beyond Chron

Thu, Jan 24, 2008 7:36AM

Thursday, January 24, 2008 : The arguments for and against the Indian Gaming agreement Propositions 94, 95, 96 and 97, has prompted me to reexamine an underlying assumption about Indian gaming. That is, does California's $7 billion Indian gaming industry substantially benefit California Indians economically and socially? There are 105 tribal entities in California with approximately 56,158 tribal members.

There are 31 gaming tribal casinos. Yes, Indian gaming revenue has been used to build houses, schools, roads and sewer and water systems and to fund health care and education for California's gaming tribes and to a lesser extent, its non-gaming tribes. However, there remains a large economic and social disparity between California Indians and those of other Americans.

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